Comparing The Prison Cell and Freedom to Breathe

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Compare and Contrast

There are so many freedoms that everyday people take for granted. Over six million Jewish people were taken from their families and friends. Corrie Ten Boom a victim and survivor from the holocaust once stated “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” The stories The Prison Cell and Freedom to Breathe differed in their approach towards freedom, but were similar in their approaches to being held captive. This essay is going to tell you about their experience during their imprisonment.

Aleksandr Solhenitsyn came from the Soviet Union. He was born in nineteen eighteen, and passed away in two-thousand eight. He was a member of the army and fought for six years. Aleksandr Solhenitsyn became imprisoned and had everything taken from him, and he was sent to the Soviet Prison camp. Aleksandr once stated “You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he is free again.” This quote from Aleksandr states that if everything is taken from you, you still have your imaginations and you can still be free.

Aleksandr Solhenitsyn used his imagination and ran with it and became a very successful writer. His imagination really took off and went wild when he became imprisoned. Aleksandr’s imagination comforted him and made him feel free while he was in prison. Stated by Aleksandr Solhenitsyn “No food on earth, no wine, not even a woman’s kiss is sweeter to me than this air steeped in the fragrance of flowers, of moisture and freshness” (Solzhenitsyn 1262). Most human beings could not be humble while in captivity for a long amount of time. Not for Solhenitsyn he was able to ma...

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I. Introduction

A. Attention getter

B. Thesis

C. Preview upcoming information

II. Body Paragraph

A. Solzhenitsyn

B. Where he came from and information about him.

III. Body paragraph

A. Solzhenitsyn

B. His experience while he was in prison and how he used his imagination.

IV. Body Paragraph

A. Tells how Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Mahmud Darwish are alike.

V. Body paragraph

A. Darwish

B. Where he came from and information about him.

VI. Body Paragraph

A. Darwish

B. His experience while he was in prison and how he used his imagination

VII. Conclusion

A. Restatement of thesis

B. Recap covered events

C. Clincher

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